TY - JOUR
T1 - Myths of the competitiveness of Hong Kong university students
T2 - A mainstream media perspective
AU - Wong, Wai-Kwok Benson
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2012 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2012/3/1
Y1 - 2012/3/1
N2 - This article aims to critically examine the media discourse of university students' competiveness. Drawing on commentaries, editorials, and reports from the mainstream local printed media, this study addresses the following questions: (1) Which of these introduces and promotes the support of university students' competitiveness? (2) What is the importance of university students' competitiveness in relation to local economy and society? (3) Who will be the potential contesters in the eyes of local students? (4) How can competitive strength be enhanced? An analytical framework is articulated based on the above questions aiming to deconstruct the notion of increasing competitiveness of university students in three ways: (1) the persistence of a sociopoliticoeconomic context, (2) values and perceptions created and advocated by mainstream media and capitalists, and (3) the production of myths, legacies, authoritarian views, and selective statistical figures in relation to such proposed values and perceptions. However, such a notion represents the persistence of power relationships between the powerful capitalists and the powerless university students, the alienation of university education, and the covert manipulation of the government and business in the social and educational system.
AB - This article aims to critically examine the media discourse of university students' competiveness. Drawing on commentaries, editorials, and reports from the mainstream local printed media, this study addresses the following questions: (1) Which of these introduces and promotes the support of university students' competitiveness? (2) What is the importance of university students' competitiveness in relation to local economy and society? (3) Who will be the potential contesters in the eyes of local students? (4) How can competitive strength be enhanced? An analytical framework is articulated based on the above questions aiming to deconstruct the notion of increasing competitiveness of university students in three ways: (1) the persistence of a sociopoliticoeconomic context, (2) values and perceptions created and advocated by mainstream media and capitalists, and (3) the production of myths, legacies, authoritarian views, and selective statistical figures in relation to such proposed values and perceptions. However, such a notion represents the persistence of power relationships between the powerful capitalists and the powerless university students, the alienation of university education, and the covert manipulation of the government and business in the social and educational system.
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U2 - 10.2753/CED1061-1932450204
DO - 10.2753/CED1061-1932450204
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:84863531507
SN - 1061-1932
VL - 45
SP - 60
EP - 74
JO - Chinese Education and Society
JF - Chinese Education and Society
IS - 2
ER -